hehhehe funny, how we all suddnely commence a mass exodus. I won't comment on the price whether its rumour or not, but what I will comment is why I think either way it won't make that much of a difference (well its totally not my own opinion)
At present in my company FLEX price tag was never a contention it was more about how will i get it into the business with minimal fuss/training required. If we were to pay $15k per CPU, then so be it. Most software we purchase thats tailored to an enterprise level is more then that - infact the intranet software we bought was higher in price and oh my, is it useless. The major selling point for us was "how much $ would it take for someone to create what FLEX has on offer via DHTML or other technology" - too much. FLEX is also a hard sell inside businesses. I know here in Australia the local Sales guys really have to put in the hard yards to get the sale made, and the end sale wasn't really worth the time and money invested (flights back and forth etc). I know, why not sell it much cheaper then? well again it would still require the same amount of sale - hand holding - to get over the line and at a lower price - furthermore it would have a larger takeup, which means sales folks will tied up with a lot of tyre kickers instead of real potential meaty customers. On top of this, if it was sold at $5k per CPU or something like that, there would be a lot of support required which in turn eats into profit margins for the product - recoup investments already outlayed. So in reality for a company thats publically listed and has a bunch of folk who demand profit margins, kinda damned if you do, damned if you don't. I am thankful that I have a company who is loaded with $$ so i can play with FLEX, but the future of FLEX is going to ramp up radically and so i can see pass the price tag and consider it a wise investment. -- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.mossyblog.com http://www.flexcoder.com (Coming Soon) Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
